04/09/2024 SOURCE: www.foodsafetynews.com

Food safety know-how can help save organic acreage

Getting tangled up in two different sets of regulations can be a headache -- or even worse, a reason to choose one part of your business over another.

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03/21/2024 SOURCE: www.foodandwine.com

Everything You Need to Know About Reheated Rice Syndrome

Understanding how to properly store your rice could save you from severe health issues.

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03/07/2024 SOURCE: www.independent.co.uk

Iowa man, 94, dies at a grain bin site while unloading soybeans

Robert Wayne Smith was prounouced dead at the scene after being found underneath soybeans

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02/13/2024 SOURCE: www.food-safety.com

Ep. 163. Natalie Dyenson: IFPA’s Advocacy for Global, Farm-to-Fork Produce Safety

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Natalie Dyenson, M.P.H., Chief Food Safety and Regulatory Officer for the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), about her role at IFPA, the Association’s key priorities for produce food safety, and its global advocacy work along the fresh produce supply chain.

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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.usatoday.com

‘How about the cigarettes that white people smoke?’ Menthol cigarette ban could give Biden fits

The Food and Drug Administration could make a decision by March to ban menthol cigarettes, popular with Black smokers.

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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.food-safety.com

In a 2023 Recap, USDA-FSIS Says it Aims to Publish Formal Regulatory Proposal for Salmonella in Poultry by Early 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) recently highlighted its key achievements in 2023 that helped strengthen food safety and the supply chain, including efforts on a new regulatory framework to crack down on Salmonella in poultry.

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FDA finalizes limit on how much arsenic can be in apple juice | CNN

The FDA finalized a limit on inorganic arsenic in apple juice that it initially proposed in 2013. The carcinogen can naturally occur in the environment.

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05/24/2023

What Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is, and the controls implemented to prevent human food from being contaminated. Read More

05/24/2023 SOURCE: brownfieldagnews.com

"National Cattlemen’s Beef Association chief veterinarian Dr. Kathy Simmons says USDA’s ongoing BSE surveillance program has tested more than one million cattle since the program began, ensuring that the agency’s interlocking supply chain safety products are working. She says the incidence of BSE in the U.S. is extremely low and will remain so."

Atypical case of BSE detected in South Carolina - Brownfield Ag News

The U.S. has reported an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in a beef cow approximately five years old or older at a slaughter plant in South Carolina.  The animal never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply or to human health in the U.S. The radio […]

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Topics: CRISPR/Gene Editing, FDA, Food Safety,

CRISPR sausage gets FDA green light for consumption

The first-of-its-kind approval could change how we think about gene-edited foods.

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